Cheng Er is still going to work, and a "Third Man" is enough for him to eat for several years. The key is that he is quite calm, not that the first feature film is successful, so he has to strike while the iron is hot. On the contrary, he rejected the olive branch offered by many film companies. In his words, he just wants to make his own films, but he doesn't have any inspiration for a while.

The preparatory team of "Purple Butterfly" is on the second floor of another small building, which Li Tang is very familiar with.

Shanghai Film Studio attaches great importance to this cooperation with Lou Ye. Since Mr. Xie Jin officially announced his retirement after filming "Opium War", Shanghai Film Studio has faced a shortage of directors. The so-called fifth-generation directors Peng Xiaolian, Zhang Jianya and others have been proved to be almost poor in practice.

The others are only Zhang Yimou, Chen Dadao and Feng Xiaogang, who was born with a Chinese New Year film, but these people are basically "famous". Zhang Yimou is deeply bound to the new picture, Director Chen is a person from China Film, and Feng Xiaogang needless to say that he has long been the signature of Huayi Brothers.

Shanghai Film Studio can only pick and choose from the sixth generation of directors. At the beginning, they also carried out a series of good cooperation, but unfortunately Chief Jia's second feature film "Platform" was called back by the Film Bureau at the preliminary review stage of the script, and it couldn't be passed. The cooperation could only be aborted, and Section Chief Jia continued to follow his path of underground films.

Then Shanghai Film Studio aimed at Lou Ye again, it was also an instant hit, but it was also a lot of good things, the script of "Summer Palace" that Lou Ye took out for the first time didn't even need to be submitted for review, and the internal review of the factory was passed. When it comes to sensitive events, this is an untouchable high-pressure red line.

Fortunately, Lou Ye took out the script of "Purple Butterfly" again, with an anti-Japanese theme, although the factions were blurred, it was finally positive, and he passed the preliminary review of the script without danger.

The investment of more than 30 million yuan, although some of it is the investment of France TV 3, but it is obvious that Shanghai Film Studio has made a heavy bet on Lou Ye this time.

"Hey, Miss Zhang, Happy New Year!"

As soon as Li Tang went up to the second floor, he bumped into Lou Ye's assistant Zhang Rong. This girl is one year younger than Li Tang, and she was not admitted to the Nortel directing department for two years, and later went to the advanced training class of the directing department. once worked with Lou Ye as an assistant director to shoot the documentary "Digital City" that was not completed in the end. Later, he didn't make much progress in the capital for a few years, and this time he was re-summoned by Lou Ye to his banner.

"Brother Li, Happy New Year!"

Seeing that there was no one in the corridor, Li Tang took out a small blue box from his satchel and handed it over.

"Wow, Lancôme!"

Even girls who have a rough life can't resist the temptation of perfume.

"I'm borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, you know!" Li Tang winked at her and smiled.

This bottle of perfume was prepared by his ex-girlfriend, and the value is not high, just a few hundred yuan of gadgets, so it will not be abrupt. When asking for help, you always have to express your gratitude, and even if it doesn't work, you can make a good relationship.

Zhang Rong was surprised, happily put the perfume in his pocket, and said with a grin: "Don't worry, I have already given the resume to the director, and the director has not said anything for the time being." ”

"Okay, thank you! Oh, the director is there, right? ”

"Yes, Sister Nell and Sister Ma are here."

Lou Ye got married last year, and his wife is the Sister Ma in Zhang Rong's mouth. The two are about the same age, a disciple of the Beijing Courtyard, graduated from Beiguang, which is now the directing department of Communication University, and later studied abroad at the University of Berlin in Germany to study film directing, and made several documentaries after returning to China.

The book of "Summer Palace" before Lou Ye was originally conceived by her. It's like-minded.

"Brother Ye, Sister An, sister-in-law, Happy New Year!"

Li Tang pushed open the door of the conference room, and the air conditioner was turned on inside, and it was warm. The three of them sat around a solid wooden conference table, the script was opened, and there were a few scattered sketches of the sub-shots, which were Lou Ye's handwriting at a glance.

Li Tang has always admired these people who can draw, because they can always vividly show the words on the script with pictures, so that people can understand it at a glance. It's not that you have a picture in your head, but you have to spend half a day trying to explain it to others.

"Happy New Year!"

Lou Ye cherished words like gold as usual, and nodded at him with a warm smile.

"Li Tang is here, Happy New Year!"

Sister Ma is very enthusiastic, she knows that the two families are world friends, and the relationship is different. And when she and Lou Ye got married, they didn't make a big deal, but relatives and friends got together, and their in-laws specially invited Li Tang's father Li Guoqing.

She got up and made tea for Li Tang.

Ney An, as always, looked at him with a smile and said, "How is the boss doing?" I heard you're getting big now! ”

"No, it's just that the house over there in 798 is cheaper, so I rent more. In case you can't get along in the future, you can also be a second landlord. ”

"Aren't you afraid of demolition in the future?"

"Don't be afraid, I don't have much money anyway. Besides, even if the demolition is somewhat relocated, there will be some compensation, no, you can't suffer a loss. Li Tang said with a smile.

At the same time, he winked at Ney and signaled how it was.

Nai An gave him a helpless look, it was obvious that at least Lou Ye was still undecided when the male number one candidate was selected.

Lou Ye was looking down and drawing on the paper, but she came over with a teacup and Sister Ma saw the lawsuit between the two of them, she didn't break it, she just smiled slightly: "Li Tang, drink tea!" ”

"Oh, thank you, sister-in-law!"

Li Tang hurriedly stood up and picked it up.

Speaking of which, he is not familiar with this Sister Ma, but when he went upstairs to deliver New Year's goods to his uncle's house a few years ago, he hurriedly met once, with a square face, high cheekbones, and thin lips. But he is very warm and polite to others, and he speaks very well with a mouthful of Beijing films.

Li Tang didn't say much, he directly took out a stack of manuscript paper from his satchel and handed it over, saying, "Brother Ye, this is a character biography I wrote, you can take a look first, is it appropriate?" ”

Dealing with Lou Ye with words is actually the most appropriate, otherwise you will always be embarrassed if you talk for a long time and he will not react at all except to keep a warm smile.

The manuscript paper is quite thick, there are more than a dozen sheets, and there are at least tens of thousands of words. When he saw the script and decided to fight for the role of Situ, he had already begun to figure out this character, and he also wrote a lot of experiences intermittently, this time taking advantage of the Spring Festival break, it took four or five days to sort out the complete character biography, which was still handwritten, although his words were still a little bit off the table.

Lou Ye read it very carefully, and read more than 10,000 words for about 20 minutes.

"Why do you want to emphasize that Situ went to a private school when he was a child?"

"This is determined by the background of the times and the family environment, and of course, it is also combined with the things that the character of Situ experienced later......"

Li Tang talked eloquently.

The reason is very simple, his understanding of the character of Situ is that he was born in a landlord family around Shanghai, and it also has the meaning of a bit of a scholarly family. At this point, he took the original grandfather as a reference object, because the scholarly family will read again.

Situ was obviously better than his grandfather, and he went to a modern middle school, and probably went to a university in Shanghai, where he could speak English, so that he could get a decent job in a foreign company, and be able to wear a suit and tie.

And the landlord's family background at least shows that the family is well-off, after all, it costs money to study, and more importantly, it coincides with the fact that the characters in the script can afford to live in a high-end apartment with a bathroom and a flush toilet.

At the same time, referring to the background of the times, Situ should have been born around 1910, and when he reached the age of entering school, a few years after the establishment of the Republic of China, there were few new-style primary schools, and more were private schools. The reason why the private school is emphasized is because Situ did not choose to be a traitor in various later events but resolutely resisted, although there was a lot of helplessness from it, but more importantly, he still had family and country feelings in his heart, loyalty, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith. And these are the traditions of Confucian private school education.

Regarding Situ's melancholy character shown in the plot, there is certainly the blow of encountering the death of his beloved girlfriend in front of him. In addition, Li Tang also designed the character of Situ, who lost his mother when he was a child, and his father continued to Xuan.

Children who grow up with this kind of background are generally always sensitive, and at the same time, they choose to study hard in order to get rid of their original family. In that era, going to a new-style middle school was tantamount to being admitted to Xiucai; Being admitted to university is similar to being admitted to a lifting person.

Most of the children who live a good life are rarely able to endure hardships like this. After all, the imperial examination system has long since died, and studying is no longer the only way to become an official. This is the case with the original grandfather, who is already very good when he graduates from middle school, and in the end he can only inherit the family business and continue to be the owner.

If you can go to the beach and get a decent job in a foreign company, that is a promising person.

It is precisely because he lost his biological mother at a very young age and is not close to his stepmother that he is particularly yearning for love, and he often loves the person he loves more deeply and knows how to cherish it more.

This can also understand why the murder of his girlfriend hit him so hard, and he would even be desperate for revenge.

This is the case with character biographies, which may show a small part of the character's life course in the script. And the character's character, including his love and life in the plot, his psychological changes when encountering things, and the choices he makes are all closely related to the environment in which he grew up from childhood to adulthood, the education he received, and so on.

Only by fully exploring the growth process of the character can the character be vividly displayed, not that it is enough to read the script after reading it.

Lou Ye watched it very seriously just now, and listened very seriously at this time. As a director, he doesn't value the so-called acting skills, actors with acting skills grab a lot of them, and he values the actors' understanding of the characters more.

After all, "Purple Butterfly" is not the previous "Suzhou River", he can not give the actors the script in advance and shoot as he wants. For such a large investment project, there must be a complete script and shoot according to the normal process.

Li Tang finally got the moon before the water, and when others hadn't seen the script, he had already eaten the characters thoroughly.

It is difficult for you to see the change in his expression on Lou Ye's face, only the occasional flash of light in his eyes can you see his surprise at the wonderful point of Li Tang's long character analysis.

As soon as Li Tang's words fell, Sister Ma took the lead in clapping her hands, and at the same time said in surprise: "Li Tang, the analysis is too good, you show a vivid Situ, I have a sense of picture when I listen to it." ”

Although "Purple Butterfly" is Lou Ye's early screenwriting work, since she joined the creative team, she has repeatedly revised the script with Lou Ye, and she has a deep understanding of the script, which is particularly resonant.

And although Nai An clapped with Sister Ma, she had long been accustomed to Li Tang. After all, as Li Tang's former agent, she watched him step by step to today's status, and was even full of pride.

She clapped her hands and looked at Lou Ye defiantly, the meaning was obvious, as if to say: The person I picked is right, right?

Lou Ye smiled shyly, which can be regarded as a kind of recognition.

Li Tang, who said that his mouth was dry, drank the warm tea in small sips, not to mention that the tea was good.

He has full confidence in this biography of the characters, including the understanding of the characters just expounded. On the one hand, he knows more about the era in which Situ lived, including his background, and in the memory of the original body, when he was a child, Lao Li told him the story of the grandfather he had never met.

For Lao Li, it can be regarded as a kind of remembrance, after all, his ancestors were broad, but he was born at the wrong time, never enjoyed it, and was even implicated in it, and he has suffered a lot since he was sensible, and the dog cub's hat has been buttoned for more than ten years.

It is precisely from this memory that will make his setting of Situ's growth experience and character development more reasonable and convincing.

In fact, when Lou Ye wrote this script, he may not have too many associations at the beginning, just wanted to write such a character, but if you study it carefully, you will find that his description of this character actually comes from Lou Ye's own understanding of that era. Because from Uncle Lou, their Lou family is not a good background, after all, at that time, only children from wealthy families could go to college, and they would have the conditions to like luxury art.

"What do you think of the character of Yiling?" Lou Ye asked again.

Yi Ling is the second female in the script and the girlfriend of the male number one Situ.

Li Tang had already recommended his ex-girlfriend to Lou Ye through Zhang Rong, and when he heard Lou Ye's question, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly said: "I think Yi Ling should be a local girl in Shanghai, her family is not very wealthy, but she is above average, and her family should live in a Shikumen house in the rental area, the kind of detached family." She is very intelligent, has a good memory, and should have graduated from high school, or attended a church school, and knows some basic communication in English or French. She has an older brother or a good classmate, and the relatives at home and Situ may be from the same school, and they may have met Situ when they attended their class reunion, and there may have been some small episodes in the middle that brought the two young people together......"

The reason why he was able to come up with these analyses was entirely due to the fact that Yi Ling's profession was an operator in a telephone company in the script.

Because in that era, the telephone company was definitely a high-tech company, and in Shanghai such companies were often monopolized by foreigners, and there was no doubt that the company address was in the French Concession and the Public Concession. As a manual operator, you must know some foreign languages, and intelligence and good memory are the qualities that manual operators must have.

And in that era when women rarely had suitable jobs, the telephone company operator was definitely a gold collar, more popular than the nurse who took medicine and injections, which also determined the family environment of Yiling's character.

This time, Lou Ye nodded frequently, and after listening to it, he rarely joked with Li Tang: "That's why you recommend who...... Oh, Li Binbin to play the role of Yiling? ”

"That's right! If I play Situ, of course I want her to play the role of Yiling. Li Tang hurriedly followed.

The role of Yi Ling should be said to be the opponent character who the male number one Situ pays the most emotion, and everything Situ does after that is based on his feelings for Yi Ling.

Hearing his undisguised words, Lou Ye pondered for a moment, and then said, "Then if it's convenient, you can bring her over to have a look." ”

"Convenient, willing to be convenient!"

(End of chapter)